Igor Bogdanoff, one of two star twins of the 1980s for launching France’s first science fiction TV show, died on Monday at the age of 72, six days after his brother Grichka. Father of six children, he was known to have produced several popular science books. With his brother Grichka, he formed an emblematic duo.
” In peace and love, surrounded by his children and his family, Igor Bogdanoff went to the light on Monday January 3, 2022 », Wrote his relatives in a message sent by his agent.
The family did not wish to communicate on the causes of the death of Igor Bogdanoff, which occurred Monday afternoon in a Parisian hospital.
His twin brother, Grichka, died on December 28, after several days of hospitalization and coma. There too, the family did not wish to communicate on the causes of his death, but relatives had assured that he was not vaccinated and that he had died of Covid-19.
As many popular successes as they are mockery
Doctors in physics and mathematics, writers, television hosts, figures in the popularization of science for the general public and subjects of controversy for researchers… Igor Bogdanoff and his brother Grichka have accumulated as much popular success as they have mocked them.
Made famous in the 1980s by their science fiction show Time Xlaunched in 1979 on TF1, where they evolved in a spaceship setting with futuristic suits, Igor and Grichka had become the object of mockery for their deeply transformed faces which they themselves had qualified as “extraterrestrials”.
Sometimes controversial scientific publications
Their scientific works aroused their share of controversy and earned them the wrath of part of the scientific community which criticized the ” low value Of their work. They had been accused of plagiarism by the American astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan for one of their most famous publications, God and science , interview with the philosopher Jean Guitton (1991).
In 2010, the weekly Marianne published extracts from a CNRS report according to which the theses and other articles of the two brothers did not ” no scientific value“. In 2012, 170 scientists claimed their “right to blame” after the conviction of a CNRS researcher criticizing the writings of the twins. WeeklyMariannewill be condemned for defamation in 2014, but shortly after, the brothers will be dismissed on the other hand of an action brought before the administrative court of Paris against the CNRS.
The revival project of the cult TV show Temps X marred by setbacks
Much mystery surrounds the biographies of the twins who have encountered numerous legal troubles. Recently, they marred their plan to revive their cult showTime Xwith the Canal group.
The two brothers had been sent back to correctional for “swindling a vulnerable person”. The trial was to take place on January 20, 21 and 27, 2022. They were accused of having defrauded a millionaire, suffering from bipolar disorder and who committed suicide in 2018, to settle their financial woes and relaunch the show.Time X.